New Year’s Change with The Hobbit

I love how my sister decorates her Christmas Tree. My tree – when I have one, which I haven’t recently thanks to destructo-cat and the perception amongst relatives that since we don’t have children, we don’t deserve to host Christmas, or maybe it’s because the last Christmas we hosted was a disaster that ended with …

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Chewing on Your Shroud

One theory about the origins of vampirism is that people created vampire folklore to explain natural occurrences that they didn't understand, among them, the strange sounds they sometimes heard near recent - but not necessarily fresh - graves. [See, for example, Vampires, Burial, and Death.] We know now that these sounds are the natural sounds …

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